Which is the point I was making - the new resolution is nothing special. BB10 is so late it's already looking middle-aged and it still has better vertical resolution than the iPhone 5 and almost as good horizontally.
As for the whole "make it taller" thing, again its been on BB10 for a while. BB10s UI is specifically optimized for UI controls in the lower 2/3 of the screen to improve usability. So again, not actually a new idea. Thanks to RIMs' incompetence iPhone 5 is first to market, but it's nothing new.
Maybe there are other aspects of the new iPhone that are worth shouting about, but the screen resolution and UI optimizations aren't.
You're free to use the included web browser to view in content you desire. So if someone can force Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix to sell any content, then does that mean they should be forced to sell porn?
Only if the business acts as a controlled gateway to a very restricted market, which is the case with the current mobile platforms (and only if the content is legal). It is not for Apple to play at being the arbiter of morality and taste any more than it is for Verizon or AT&T.
Btw there is currently a significant performance gap between native and web apps, you can't compare the two.
Given the ever-shrinking range of platforms on offer, it's time we had content neutrality rules. Verizon shouldn't get to interfere with how I use my bandwidth, and nor should Apple (or Google, or RIM, or Nokia).
"...and the degree to which the target environment can be expected to infer application choice and to derive appropriate configuration settings. "
My paper describes a user profiling mechanism designed to describe variations on configuration based on user capability and current environmental conditions. It is part of a model of self-adapting user interfaces.
Meanwhile, Apple was granted a number of new patents on Tuesday, including one for changing settings on a wireless device depending on its location (#8,254,902). For example, sound and light from the device could be disabled when entering a movie theater, or communications with other devices could be disabled in a science laboratory.
Sorry Apple, I got there first (ad this is just one paper, I began disseminating the work 2003).
Dodd, R., Green, S., and Pearson, E. 2009. User capability in an adaptive world. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMM international Workshop on Media Studies and Implementations that Help Improving Access To Disabled Users. Beijing, China, October 23 - 23, 2009 pp. 79-88.
DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1631097.1631110
New York, NY: ACM Press.
Abstract
General computing devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, personal, and mobile; and bring expectations of multimedia delivery with them that are traditionally the domain of desktop computing. Given their small form factors with restricted interaction modalities, optimizing interaction between user and device becomes critical to the usability and accessibility of the device. To this end, we present simple but powerful models of user capability, capacity, and preference that allow for a wholly adaptive and optimized user experience, with the models driving selection and configuration of appropriate interaction modalities, and themselves adapting their settings in order to reflect both changes in the environment, and the history of user behaviour. In order to achieve this, user profiles are no longer collections of purely static values, but may also contain functionally dependent properties that are changeable in response to external events. The models themselves do not perform any adaptation, but aim to drive the adaptation process.
Playbook, and soon the new BB10 O/S already allow for full HTML5 apps, have an app store, and a set of developer tools for HTML % mobile app development.
Firefox OS is great and its introduction would only help RIM.
Cutting access to terrorists should certainly reduce their influence and access to new members.
But who decides who is actually a terrorist? In the UK in the 80's our Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher) used to refer to Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. Th Chinese Communist Party call anyone who stands up to their rule "terrorists", as does Assad in Syria today.
So I understand the reasoning but fear the consequences.
I think you mis-understand the UK licensing system. To license a vehicle, you must have a valid 3rd party insurance in case you inure someone, which itself requires a valid driving license; and you must also have a certificate of safety if the vehicle is anything other than new i.e. the brakes have to work properly. It's not too much to ask.
Try telling that to the people on the other end of car smashes and hit-and-runs involving uninsured and banned (dangerous) drivers. The plan will save lives.
Well, I remember actually going to the developer days before the Playbook was launched, and applying for my free Playbook, and the whole tech presentation was about how it worked as an extension to your phone and why that was good for business.
The engineers seemed to know what they were making, and what their priorities were. The CEOs and their marketing department on the other hand were living in some strange parallel universe... I note that the CEOs have gone, and they are shopping around for a new Marketing director. I'm not surprised.
It was designed as a an accessory to a BlackBerry that could share the same data plan. It was designed that way to please their bigger business customers, and stabilize sales to them. That worked actually.
The big problem was that their marketing department sold it as something it wasn't until today: a stand-alone tablet.
Generally it's better to keep the child in school learning, however imperfectly, than having them running around the streets on suspension. You have to ensure that disruptive pupils don't impact on other children's learning, but the principle is a good one.
"There is nothing I can tell you," Jim Lakely, Heartland's communications director, said in a telephone interview. "We are investigating what we have seen on the internet and we will have more to say in the morning." Lakely made no attempt to deny the veracity of information contained in the documents.
Schools are about much more than being just exam machines. You have to look at ethos, discipline, how happy the children are that go there, and the reputation of the school with employers (if it's a high school). You get that information much better through social networking than through bald statistics.
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BB10/ Playbook OS are. Remember RIM is actually SELLING Android apps.
So I'm able to compare the Alibaba/Acer product with BlackBerry 10.
RIM's new OS is not Android BUT IT CAN RUN Android apps http://developer.blackberry.com/android/
That's why I find it an interesting comparison
I was merely wondering how Androidy Alyun is going to turn out to be.
Google aren't, as far as I know, bullying RIMs OEMs, so I wondered how much more of a threat Aliyun is to them.
Sounds similar to RIM's new BlackBerry OS, that can run Android apps too, but not everything. Does Aliyun have the same restrictions?
Which is the point I was making - the new resolution is nothing special. BB10 is so late it's already looking middle-aged and it still has better vertical resolution than the iPhone 5 and almost as good horizontally. As for the whole "make it taller" thing, again its been on BB10 for a while. BB10s UI is specifically optimized for UI controls in the lower 2/3 of the screen to improve usability. So again, not actually a new idea. Thanks to RIMs' incompetence iPhone 5 is first to market, but it's nothing new. Maybe there are other aspects of the new iPhone that are worth shouting about, but the screen resolution and UI optimizations aren't.
Filing papers in court I suspect.
I blame my Mac keyboard, it knows what I'm typing...
Not exactly awe inspiring Apple, is it? http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/16/rim-standard-resolutions-bb10/
You're free to use the included web browser to view in content you desire. So if someone can force Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix to sell any content, then does that mean they should be forced to sell porn?
Only if the business acts as a controlled gateway to a very restricted market, which is the case with the current mobile platforms (and only if the content is legal). It is not for Apple to play at being the arbiter of morality and taste any more than it is for Verizon or AT&T.
Btw there is currently a significant performance gap between native and web apps, you can't compare the two.
Given the ever-shrinking range of platforms on offer, it's time we had content neutrality rules. Verizon shouldn't get to interfere with how I use my bandwidth, and nor should Apple (or Google, or RIM, or Nokia).
"...and the degree to which the target environment can be expected to infer application choice and to derive appropriate configuration settings. "
My paper describes a user profiling mechanism designed to describe variations on configuration based on user capability and current environmental conditions. It is part of a model of self-adapting user interfaces.
Meanwhile, Apple was granted a number of new patents on Tuesday, including one for changing settings on a wireless device depending on its location (#8,254,902). For example, sound and light from the device could be disabled when entering a movie theater, or communications with other devices could be disabled in a science laboratory.
Sorry Apple, I got there first (ad this is just one paper, I began disseminating the work 2003).
Dodd, R., Green, S., and Pearson, E. 2009. User capability in an adaptive world. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMM international Workshop on Media Studies and Implementations that Help Improving Access To Disabled Users. Beijing, China, October 23 - 23, 2009 pp. 79-88. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1631097.1631110 New York, NY: ACM Press.
Abstract
General computing devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, personal, and mobile; and bring expectations of multimedia delivery with them that are traditionally the domain of desktop computing. Given their small form factors with restricted interaction modalities, optimizing interaction between user and device becomes critical to the usability and accessibility of the device. To this end, we present simple but powerful models of user capability, capacity, and preference that allow for a wholly adaptive and optimized user experience, with the models driving selection and configuration of appropriate interaction modalities, and themselves adapting their settings in order to reflect both changes in the environment, and the history of user behaviour . In order to achieve this, user profiles are no longer collections of purely static values, but may also contain functionally dependent properties that are changeable in response to external events. The models themselves do not perform any adaptation, but aim to drive the adaptation process.
Playbook, and soon the new BB10 O/S already allow for full HTML5 apps, have an app store, and a set of developer tools for HTML % mobile app development. Firefox OS is great and its introduction would only help RIM.
Since when do we use the Toronto Sun as a reputable source for technical stuff?
Since when do we use the Toronto Sun as a reputable source for anything?
(For those that are lucky enough not to know, it's a tabloid)
Cutting access to terrorists should certainly reduce their influence and access to new members.
But who decides who is actually a terrorist? In the UK in the 80's our Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher) used to refer to Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. Th Chinese Communist Party call anyone who stands up to their rule "terrorists", as does Assad in Syria today.
So I understand the reasoning but fear the consequences.
I think you mis-understand the UK licensing system. To license a vehicle, you must have a valid 3rd party insurance in case you inure someone, which itself requires a valid driving license; and you must also have a certificate of safety if the vehicle is anything other than new i.e. the brakes have to work properly. It's not too much to ask.
Try telling that to the people on the other end of car smashes and hit-and-runs involving uninsured and banned (dangerous) drivers. The plan will save lives.
Well, I remember actually going to the developer days before the Playbook was launched, and applying for my free Playbook, and the whole tech presentation was about how it worked as an extension to your phone and why that was good for business.
The engineers seemed to know what they were making, and what their priorities were. The CEOs and their marketing department on the other hand were living in some strange parallel universe... I note that the CEOs have gone, and they are shopping around for a new Marketing director. I'm not surprised.
It was designed as a an accessory to a BlackBerry that could share the same data plan. It was designed that way to please their bigger business customers, and stabilize sales to them. That worked actually. The big problem was that their marketing department sold it as something it wasn't until today: a stand-alone tablet.
Thank goodness they're not an evil company. It could have been M$ breaking the Web standard...
Generally it's better to keep the child in school learning, however imperfectly, than having them running around the streets on suspension. You have to ensure that disruptive pupils don't impact on other children's learning, but the principle is a good one.
It's not like Apple has the vision and single-mindedness of Steve Jobs to fall back on any more.
I'm sure you did the right thing. There is so much more to education than dry statistics can give us.
Schools are about much more than being just exam machines. You have to look at ethos, discipline, how happy the children are that go there, and the reputation of the school with employers (if it's a high school). You get that information much better through social networking than through bald statistics.